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Under duress, the father reluctantly retrieved the ball from his son and handed it over, much to the shock and dismay of onlookers.

"Various Second World War-era unexploded ordnance items were discovered as a result of the wildfires, which the EOD operator declared to be inert practice projectiles. They were retrieved for subsequent disposal," he explained.

The drone activity never ceases, and the war injured, and the dead, can only be safely retrieved at night.

He said it belonged to a body he had buried and that he had retrieved it recently from the spot.

Authorities have not confirmed the cause of the crash but Mahama confirmed that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders had been retrieved and that Ghana's armed forces had "initiated a full and transparent investigation".